Raquel Paraíso

Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology, University of Wisconsin­Madison, 2014. Postdoctoral fellow, University of Veracruz­Xalapa, September 2015 – July 2016. Her areas of interests focus on cultural politics of music, and musical production of place, identity, and ethnicity in Latin America at large, and Mexico in particular. Her dissertation, research, and latest publications deal with the re­contextualizing of traditions and the
performance of identity in festivals of sones in Mexico. Her articles have been published by El Colegio de Michoacán (2007), the UNAM (2011), and the INAH (2007, 2009, 2011, 2015), as well as a book of Latin American music transcriptions published by Hal Leonard (1999).